Significantly more practical

While Star Wars has cool blasters and lightsabers, Star Trek technology seems more practical, and thus, more realistic. Aside from the aforementioned food replicators, there's also things like the communictor insignias, medical tricorders, Geordi La Forge's visor, and the telecommunication systems that are much better examples of technology actually being useful in everyday life.

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